⁸ “Judah,^[a](A) your brothers will praise you;
    your hand will be on the neck^(B) of your enemies;
    your father’s sons will bow down to you.^(C)
9 You are a lion’s^(D) cub,^(E) Judah;^(F)
    you return from the prey,^(G) my son.
Like a lion he crouches and lies down,
    like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Judah,^(H)
    nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,^[b]
until he to whom it belongs^[c] shall come^(I)
    and the obedience of the nations shall be his.^(J)

⁶ “I have installed my king^(A)
    on Zion,^(B) my holy mountain.^(C)”

He said to me, “You are my son;^(D)
    today I have become your father.^(E)
8 Ask me,
    and I will make the nations^(F) your inheritance,^(G)
    the ends of the earth^(H) your possession.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth^(A)
    will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
    will bow down before him,^(B)
28 for dominion belongs to the Lord^(C)
    and he rules over the nations.

⁷ They go from strength to strength,^(A)
    till each appears^(B) before God in Zion.^(C)

²⁷ And I will appoint him to be my firstborn,^(A)
    the most exalted^(B) of the kings^(C) of the earth.
²⁸ I will maintain my love to him forever,
    and my covenant with him will never fail.^(D)
29 I will establish his line forever,
    his throne as long as the heavens endure.^(E)

¹⁹ Once you spoke in a vision,
    to your faithful people you said:
“I have bestowed strength on a warrior;
    I have raised up a young man from among the people.
²⁰ I have found David^(A) my servant;^(B)
    with my sacred oil^(C) I have anointed^(D) him.
²¹ My hand will sustain him;
    surely my arm will strengthen him.^(E)
22 The enemy will not get the better of him;^(F)
    the wicked will not oppress^(G) him.
²³ I will crush his foes before him^(H)
    and strike down his adversaries.^(I)
24 My faithful love will be with him,^(J)
    and through my name his horn^[a] will be exalted.
²⁵ I will set his hand over the sea,
    his right hand over the rivers.^(K)
26 He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father,^(L)
    my God, the Rock^(M) my Savior.’^(N)
27 And I will appoint him to be my firstborn,^(O)
    the most exalted^(P) of the kings^(Q) of the earth.
²⁸ I will maintain my love to him forever,
    and my covenant with him will never fail.^(R)
29 I will establish his line forever,
    his throne as long as the heavens endure.^(S)

³⁴ Righteousness exalts a nation,^(A)
    but sin condemns any people.